Bulgarian Agrarian National Union

The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BZNS) was a populist agrarian political party in Bulgaria that was founded in 1899. The party was founded as a professional organization for peasants, and it later became an agrarian political party. The party initially supported agrarian socialism, and its chief rival was the Bulgarian Communist Party, with the two parties being the two major parties in the country. The BZNS' leader Aleksandar Stamboliyski served as Prime Minister from 1919 until 1923, and he advocated for the redistribution of land and rural education. Stamboliyski was murdered in 1923, and the party's support declined. It was later restored in 1989 after the fall of communism in Bulgaria, and it held no representation in the government.